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30 known vulnerabilities across versions
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CVE-2025-69720
<= 6.4
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.
7.3HIGH
CVE-2020-19190
all versions
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry in tinfo/comp_hash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial o
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2020-19189
all versions
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers t
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2020-19188
all versions
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1116 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a d
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2020-19187
all versions
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1100 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a d
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2020-19186
all versions
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2020-19185
all versions
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in one_one_mapping function in progs/dump_entry.c:1373 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cau
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2023-29491
< 6.4
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption
7.8HIGH
CVE-2022-29458
< 6.3
ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in
7.1HIGH
CVE-2021-39537
<= 6.2.1
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
8.8HIGH
CVE-2019-17595
< 6.2
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.
5.4MEDIUM
CVE-2019-17594
< 6.2
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses befo
5.3MEDIUM
CVE-2019-15548
<= 5.99.0
An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because intera
9.8CRITICAL
CVE-2019-15547
<= 5.99.0
An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are format string issues in printw functions because C
7.5HIGH
CVE-2018-19217
all versions
In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2018-19211
all versions
In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will lead to a denial of ser
5.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-16879
all versions
Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a deni
7.8HIGH
CVE-2017-13734
all versions
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial o
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-13733
all versions
There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote deni
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-13732
all versions
There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote de
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-13731
all versions
There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remot
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-13730
all versions
There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remo
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-13729
all versions
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial o
6.5MEDIUM
CVE-2017-13728
all versions
There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to
7.5HIGH
CVE-2017-11113
all versions
In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a rem
7.5HIGH
CVE-2017-11112
all versions
In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead t
7.5HIGH
CVE-2017-10685
all versions
In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary
9.8CRITICAL
CVE-2017-10684
all versions
In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary
9.8CRITICAL
CVE-2002-0062
< 5.0
Buffer overflow in ncurses 5.0, and the ncurses4 compatibility package as used in Red Hat Linux, allows local users to gain privil
CVE-2000-0963
< 5.6
Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TER
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